Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Reputation

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) South African Political leader

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch (1304–74) Italian Scholar, Poet, Humanist

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Pliny the Elder (23–79CE) Roman Statesman, Scholar

Some men’s reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.
Richard Whately (1787–1863) English Philosopher, Theologian

Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce of that serene companion, a good name, recovers not his loss; but walks with shame, with doubt, with fear, and haply with remorse.
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Poet

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist

Reputation is sometimes as wide as the horizon, when character is but the point of a needle.—Character is what one really is; reputation what others believe him to be.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer

The average person’s ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English Religious Poet

A good reputation is more valuable than money.
Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer

Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.
Robert Quillen (1887–1948) American Journalist, Humorist

For God’s sake (I never was more serious) don’t make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print… substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
Charles Lamb (1775–1834) British Essayist, Poet

Reputations will continue to be made by many acts and be lost by one.
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My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

Reputation is in itself only a farthing-candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic

The two most precious things this side the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. A wise man, therefore, will be more anxious to deserve a fair name than to possess it, and this will teach him so to live, as not to be afraid to die.
Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.
Anthony J. D’Angelo

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Mencius (c.371–c.289 BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates (469BCE–399BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American Businessperson, Engineer

A good name is better than precious ointment.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
E. W. Howe (1853–1937) American Novelist, Editor

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (1773–1850) Scottish Judge, Literary Critic

It ain’t often that a man’s reputation outlasts his money.
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian (1601–58) Spanish Scholar, Prose Writer

A man’s reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.
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It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
Unknown

See that your character is right, and in the long run your reputation will be right.
Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist

It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

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